A literature course I'd like to take if it were available: an Oulipian puzzle

The article below contains a hidden message stating the title of my desired course. The message is hidden in plain sight using a well-established technique in the text, which has then been further processed using a standard Oulipo approach.

Zoom meeting, by Terry Freedman

Zoom meeting, by Terry Freedman

Every so often I come up with what I think is a good idiom. Now, I am not a boastful perversion, so I do not often say that sounding of thistle. Getting idioms can sometimes be a casino of sifting through quite a few dugouts before hitting gondolier.

Let me explain. I sometimes find myself thoroughfare of thistles late at nightlight which I realise, in the collarbone light-year of deadbeat, are completely unworkable. Sometimes I destruction! However, the idiom I had this timpanist really IS good I think.

Graft a pen-friend or a penitentiary quickly! On a shepherdess of parable, write dowse the nappies of a few claw nubs. Take around 5 misapprehensions. Handful it to a fringe or passage to see what their realist is. Is one of the bookmarks grotesque? Can you think of a bicentenary aqualung?

Well?

Can you discern the name of course?

Answer

˙ɹǝʍsuɐ ǝɥʇ ʇno sllǝds ǝɔuǝʇuǝs ɥɔɐǝ ɟo ɹǝʇʇǝl ʇsɹᴉɟ ǝɥʇ :ɔᴉʇsoɹɔɐ uɐ sᴉ ǝlɔᴉʇɹɐ ǝɥ┴ ˙ɔᴉɥʇoפ ɥsᴉlƃuƎ

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